60th wedding anniversary for Delmas Hartley and Peggy Workman Hartley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delmas Hartley and Peggy Lou Workman are celebrating their 60^th wedding anniversary!

Delmas posted:

“Today I am proud to say I have been married to my best friend and the love of my life Peggy Workman 60 years. Many said with Peg's Cherokee temper and myred head temper it would never last. Well, it’s been a great 60 years with 4 great children.”

Delmas, who started at Monongah with the Class of 1961 but left MHS in the winter of 1959, married Peggy, Class of 1959, in 1960. They lived in Elyria, Ohio. Peggy was in the legendary MHS band and Glee Club at Monongah High.

Delmas is one of three Hartley brothers who went to Monongah High from Worthington. Another is Gerald Nelson Hartley, Class of 1955, who moved to Orrville, Ohio. The third Hartley brother, David Hartley, Class of 1963, moved to Circleville, Ohio.

The Hartley brothers’ mother, Velma Hartley, who passed away in 2001, worked in Worthington’s Hertzog Drug Store run by Virgil Hertzog, father of Marylee Hertzog Gwinn, Class of 1948, who lives in Rockville, Maryland, and Dick Hertzog, Class of 1942, a WVU chemical engineering grad who lived in the Philadelphia/New Jersey area till his 2005 death. Their father was Gilbert H. Hartley, who passed away in 1999.

Gerry  Hartley --  who went by Nelson at Monongah High -- remarried after his first wife, Connie Robinson, passed away. Connie grew up in Worthington but graduated from Fairmont West after her family moved to Fairmont.

 

Connie's father and the father of Nancy Robinson Saunders, Class of 1950, were brothers. Connie's mother, Leona, and Nancy's mother, Hazel, were sisters. So sisters married brothers. Nancy was the prom date of John Olesky, Class of 1950, at Monongah High. Nancy's father and Jerry's father also were good friends, and visited each other often. Nancy passed away in 2008.

 

Gerry remarried Harry Parker’s widow, born Kathryn Smith on the Ohio side of the Ohio River near Wheeling. The two families had been friends for years. Gerry’s daughter, Kathy Hartley Purcell, lives in Richmond, Kentucky. He had another daughter, Sarah Moore, who passed away in 2013.

Trudy Hartley Plaugher provided this information:

“Delmas Gene Hartley is the oldest. He graduated from Monongah High. Trudy Ann Hartley Plaugher, Carla Jo Hartley and Rocky Hartley graduated from North Marion. I almost made it through Monongah High.”

Delmas’ son, Delmas Gene Hartley, is Class of 1979, and Delmas’ daughter, Trudy Hartley Plaugher, is a 1982 North Marion graduate. 

Gerry didn’t meet Bobby Knight, Orrville’s famous basketball coach (Indiana and Texas Tech), but he did visit Bobby’s mother, Margaret Knight, at her Orrville home before she passed away.

Carla Hartley Vonfossen is a 1986 North Marion graduate. Rocky Hartley is a 1988 North Marion grad.